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Robert Jones

The producer of Netflix's Witcher can blame Americans and young people for its failings all day, but the fact is a no-budget YouTube fan film does it better

Alzur's Legacy The Witcher fan film

When I read that The Witcher's executive producer, Tomek Baginski, had blamed Americans and young people for the show's "painful" simplifications of the source material, I simply shrugged.

Netflix's depiction of Andrzej Sapkowski's fiction is, at times, truncated, tonally different and simplified from the source material (let alone CD Projekt's hugely successful series of The Witcher video games). But is that supposed to be news to people, or something massively unexpected?

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